Happy 54th birthday to the one and only….FRED DURST!!!

That’s right!! Happy birthday to the pinnacle of frontmen in Nu Metal. Nay, every metal. All music. EVER!! On the Pantheon of rock, Fred Durst stand high in the middle. Head and shoulders above everyone else. (Except maybe Scott Stapp).

If we didn’t have Fred Durst, we wouldn’t have Puddle Of Mudd. (Seriously, look it up.). We also wouldn’t have worn puffy winter jackets in the middle of summer in 1998 with backwards red New York Yankee hats. (F$%k the Yankees btw.) We also wouldn’t have docuseries’ about Woodstock 99. Seriously, without Durst it would have just been a successful gathering of 250,000 people. How boring is that?

Godspeed Fred. May the angels of Nu Metal carry you ever higher by the year.

Oh, it’s also Robert Plant’s birthday.